Tagged map of the day

Today's map comes from the World Resources Institute, which runs the ever helpful "Paris Agreement Tracker" that shows which countries, to data, have signed and ratified the Paris Climate Agreement which was adopted last year.
The Paris Agreement is the wor...

Today's map comes from the new ForeignAssistance.gov website. It is a fascinating data visualization of planned global development and foreign assistance spending for the Fiscal Year 2017. The entire website is worth your time to peruse.
Here are a few high...

It's World Cancer Day. So, let's talk about cancer!
The first two maps come via PRI's The World. It shows the number of new cancer cases, annually per 100,000 people. Darker green indicates more cases.
As you can see, the USA is still a global leader...

Today's map comes from a UN entity called the Central Emergency Response Fund. It shows where some $70 million of funding for humanitarian relief operations were disbursed today.
These eight emergencies are not necessarily the biggest in the w...

Today's map comes from the Global Peace Index, released by the Institute for Economics and Peace last week. The index is a combination of 23 indicators which taken together offer a useful way to compare the levels of peace across countries.
"P...

This map, from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, succinctly shows the number people displaced by fighting in South Sudan and where they have fled.
There is a deeper story to this map.
Over the last four weeks, fighting has i...